Technology Whitepapers

This case study looks at the results of civil contracting company, Fulton Hogan, was able to achieve after adopting a suite of technologies to support its end-user computing environment.
•Company was looking for new technology that would give better project support, secure access and to increase mobile usage
•Growth was seen in all goal areas of: growth, cost management, risk management, talent management, client engagement, CSR, productivity and innovation
•Dynamic infrastructure allows the IT department to adapt quicker and support the business’s needs, across multiple areas

Many organisations believe they can transform their IT operations by simply buying a new management tool. However, this is just the start. This whitepaper discusses the dynamics of a complete transformation:
• Learn why IT management tools should be more than "plug & play"
• The 5-step plan to implementing ITSM for the best results long-term
• Understand why your approach should be more about the data and less about the tool itself

After Hurricane Sandy flooded its Lower Manhattan headquarters, EmblemHealth enables displaced employees to re-engage and reconnect with their co-workers by supplying Dell laptops to maintain productivity from remote locations.
-Company headquarters flooded by Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge left 1,900 employees without offices
-Loss of office space for so many corporate staff employees threatened to disrupt a timely conclusion to the company’s fiscal year-end
-Newly gained flexibilty and productivity was enabled by access to over 900 laptops and desktops from Dell

This whitepaper details how the Academy of Art University in the US uses high-performing, reliable workstations, servers, and PCs to help design students get ready for the workforce.
• The University has a cross-academy strategy that seeks to give all departments, including faculty and administrative staff, technology that fosters innovation.
• The Academy can support its technology strategy and prepare students for success in the emerging innovation economy
• The University can also better support remote learning

Over recent years, network devices have evolved way beyond their traditional role of just ‘directing traffic’. This whitepaper argues that the convergence of different technologies within the same device calls for new thinking about network management.
• The introduction of new devices and advanced infrastructure has made the work of enterprise network management teams more complex
• Servers, storage, operating systems and applications were the responsibility of other teams, but thanks to the converged infrastructure and new technologies, the roles of teams are blurring
• Getting and keeping today’s application performance systems optimally tuned calls for high levels of network, hardware, software and application skills

True innovation isn’t achieved by technology alone. This paper looks at the nature of innovation and how difficult it can be to recognise, let alone embed within your ICT outsourcing arrangements, and offers better ways of enabling true business innovation.
• A Deloitte survey of 5000 young leaders found that 78% of ‘millennials’ cited innovation as one of the top three purposes of business
• Only 58% of the young leaders from Australia believed they work in an innovative organisation and just 46% felt their organisation helps them to be innovative
• Clauses in ICT outsourcing contracts relating to innovation are typically both extremely limiting and impractical to deliver.

In this report, UXC Connect’s Steve Saunders describes a real-life case study where a major services organisation overcame the challenge of managing diversity across multiple locations, user expectations and technology environments.
• For historical reasons, many large organisations put more effort into support than they should
• A common challenge is managing diversity by creating commonality across multiple locations, user expectations and technology environments
• The solution involves centralised remote management and standardised technical support and maintenance arrangements

Empowered customers are disrupting every industry, and CIOs need to understand how technology management must adapt. This report outlines how disruptive customers can place harsh and unfamiliar demands on institutions, necessitating changes in how they develop, market, sell, and deliver products and services.

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution provides the ability to access the right information, from the right source, at the right time, empowering all users throughout the supply chain. This report explains how your solution can identify the resources needed to capture, produce, ship, and account for customer orders, while supporting the various manufacturing processes.

BYOD trends are putting pressure on IT departments to support all personal mobile devices in all work spaces, while Analysys Mason forecasts that revenue from mobility for mid-market enterprises will grow to US$79 billion by 2018. This white paper looks at the power of mobility as part of a unified communications (UC) platform; the competing interests of IT departments, and why vendors supplying these solutions are well prepared to meet the needs of mid-market enterprise technology and business challenges.

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More and more government agencies are turning to a BYOD strategy. While this can make more transactions mobile and potentially decrease IT costs, they may also make the agency vulnerable to security breaches.
•One of the biggest threats is social engineering, a process by which an adversary tricks the user into offering up information or access rights.
•While there are several types of social engineering to be on the lookout for, there are three dominant attacks to watch
•As agencies debate expanded device and data management policies, creating a divide between personal and professional content is essential

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Mobile computing is no longer a “fad”—recent ESG research data shows that 87% of enterprise organisations say mobile computing is either “critical” or “very important” for supporting business processes and employee productivity. In fact, ESG research indicates that 42% of enterprises are actively developing a significant number of mobile applications themselves. Report the full report today.

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